CLERMONT, an arrondissement of the department of Puy de Dôme, in France, extending over 774 square miles. It is divided into fourteen cantons, and subdivided into 106 communes, containing 169,105 inhabitants. The capital, from which the arrondissement takes its name, is seated between the two small rivers Beda and Arlier. It contains, including the suburbs, which are extensive, 2167 houses and 31,509 inhabitants. There are an academy, a royal college, a botanic garden, and other institutions for scientific purposes. It is a place of great trade, partly as the entrepôt to the north and south of France, but in a great measure from the sale of its own products. There are in the city several medicinal natural springs, frequented by invalids. Long. 3. 0. E. Lat. 45. 46. N.